26 December 2007

Chak de India - Even though the end was predictable, it was pulse racing. Fantastic movie.Lesson: If a coach's role is very important, and if a team has a foreign coach then the team cannot be considered as a National team.

Om Shanthi Om - It reminded me about the Jackie chan's "The Myth". It was okay.Lesson: If you want to do something and work for it, the whole universe makes it happen for you.

The Pink Panther - Good Comedy. It reminded me of the dumb people around me, who think they are smart.Lesson: Some people are made to manage a team when they are no way good enough to do that. It is done, just to make someone else managing some other team look better! Theory of relativity @ work.

Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy - Nice movie. Makes you think about purpose of life. Also makes fun of the Bureaucrats.Lesson: Enjoy the journey of life without troubling your co-passengers, or if possible make their journey better.

25 December 2007

I set a reminder on my mobile to watch the movie, "The Pink Panther" on STAR Movies. The phone has T9 input. Guess what did it remind me about? Or try it on your phone.

T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys, is a patented predictive text technology for mobile phones, developed by Tegic Communications, recently acquired by Nuance Communications . It is used on phones from LG, Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sanyo, Sagem and others. Its main competitors are iTap, created by Motorola, and LetterWise, created by Eatoni.

The difference between Tamil spoken in Tamilnadu and Srilanka is much higher than the difference between Tamil spoken in diff parts of Tamilnadu, say Madurai and Coimbatore. The difference is almost near to the difference between Tamil and Malayalam, or Tamil and Kannada, or even Tamil and Telugu. If they name their language as something else(say Elam or Elabasha or whatever), I am sure there wont be any loss of lives as it is today. The politicians in Tamilnadu will not try to play Linguistic politics as they do now.

They say that being a minority tamils are not given equal opportunities, jobs etc in Srilanka. But the same condition prevails in India, in Tamilnadu for the minorities, those who do not belong to Scheduled Caste or Backward Caste. If left alone Srilankans will find a way, themselves, to live peacefully. These cheap politicians in Tamilnadu create havoc in Srilanka to stay in power.

Green Week is being celebrated/followed in my office. But conservation of energy and water was talked about a lot instead of pollution!!!

Fighting Pollution Versus Energy/Water Conservation

Though there may be a relation between consumption of water/power to the pollution, it does not constitute much. Fighting global warming is a good cause if we know it for sure. I personally believe that man do not have good understanding of those. If we cannot predict the tomorrow's weather, how can we predict the climate after 100s of years. Even consuming plastic saves forest, only that we should dispose/recycle it properly. Creating awareness of how to reuse/recycle/dispose them is much better than simply asking people not to use plastic bags. Paper bags costs lots of wood!

Instead we should work for proper recycling/disposal of water. Improve scientific ways to generate1 power. No one knows the purpose of life2, but we tell not to waste power, water. The term wastage depends on the person. Some people will define anything not absolutely required for life as waste. For example movies, TV, Books, A/C etc.. may be considered as waste. And even letting the bulb glow even when I am not there is useful for me as I do not have to take the pain of switching it off and on!

1 - Generate is a wrong word here as it can be mistakenly understood as create. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. "Convert" should be more suitable.

07 December 2007

Consuming FOSS but not contributing is like enjoying the nation's facilities without paying tax. The realization came to me only after beginning to contribute(pay tax). But if we can make everyone realize this..... zzzzzzzzz